Reviving classic Dominican merengue

The World

Host Marco Werman spins an old, but newly remastered, classic by the doyenne of “merengue tipico,” Fifita La Grande, a song composed in the 1920s called “Caña brava,” originally a promotional tune for a rum company that became a merengue standard.

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